Scheck on the Arts

It's a little late, but the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene is presenting a raucous Purimshpiel with their revival of The Megile of Itzik Manger. To read my New York Post review, click here.

And Now a World From Our Sponsor is a new screen comedy starring Bruce Greenwood and Parker Posey that just received its world premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Hamesima X is a loopy sci-fi thriller from Israel about a Mossad agent interrogating a Kabbalah-spouting alien. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

The Drawer Boy is a terrific 1999 Canadian play only now receiving its NYC Off-Broadway premiere. To read my New York Post review, click here.

Tai Chi Hero, the sequel to last year's Tai Chi Zero, delivers plenty of frenetic martials-arts action. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

The superb Israeli thriller Big Bad Wolves features plenty of shocking plot twists and devilishly mordant humor. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of this film featured at the Tribeca Film Festival, click here.

The documentary Married & Counting chronicles the cross-country journey of a same-sex couple seeking to get married in every state in which it's legally possible. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Here are three more of my Tribeca Film Festival reviews from the Hollywood Reporter:

Linda Bloodworth Thomason's moving documentary Bridegroom puts a human face on the issue of gay couples' legal rights. To read my review, click here.

Whoopi Goldberg makes her directorial debut with the documentary I Got Somethin' to Tell You, about the trailblazing comedienne Moms Mabley. To read my review, click here.

A cannibalistic Maori family turns the tables on a gang of criminals in the New Zealand comic horror film Fresh Meat. To read my review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

The Working Theater's La Ruta, about smuggling illegal immigrants into the country, is being presented inside an actual 48-foot truck. To read my New York Post feature story about this site-specific show, click here.

Farah Goes Bang is a sexually and politically charged road movie about three female workers canvassing for John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of this film being screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Two more film reviews from the Tribeca Film Festival:

Jennifer Jason Leigh stars in the twisted psychological thriller The Moment, about an emotionally damaged war photographer looking for her missing lover. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Some Velvet Morning is the latest provocative effort from filmmaker/playwright Neil LaBute. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of this drama starring Stanley Tucci and Alice Eve, click here.

-----Frank Scheck